It may not be evening when you read this, but the time has come to put Houstonist to bed. We got word from our parents at Gothamist a few weeks ago that they felt it was time to shutter the site, due to things like statistics, advertising, and the general plight of maintaining a journalistic publication in today's economic climate.
To speak from a very personal angle for a moment, I'd like to personally thank everyone who's every contributed content, read an article, invited us to a performance or event, and really anybody who has ever laid eyes upon the site. I've really enjoyed the opportunity I've had as Editor this year, and I can truly say that I've met a fantastic amount of people and discovered a tremendous amount of music [my beat, if you hadn't figured that out yet] over the course of my tenure at Houstonist.
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Houstonist brought you some goodies from around the Istaverse yesterday, but we wanted to share one more thing with you. We suspect that it's possible you've heard of the G20 Summit going on right now to the north of us. Our sister blog Torontoist has been providing round-the-clock live coverage of the
G20 summit, which landed in their city on a chaos-filled
Saturday that saw cop
cars get lit on fire, windows
get smashed, and some
lighter moments.
- Chicagoist survived a round of apocalyptic storms in which lightning struck the city's three tallest buildings at the same time.
- SFist fetched the smelling salts after looking at this shocking Gay Pride window display at the downtown Diesel store.
- Bostonist rocked the American Craft Beer Festival for the third year in a row.
Been wondering just how big that Deepwater Horizon oil spill [unleashing somewhere between 200K and 2 million gallons of crude a day] is? Look no further than Paul Rademacher's online tool. Note: you'll need to install a Google Earth browser plug-in to use it, by the way.
Due to the smoke monster from LOST a large mess o' volcanic ash all up in Europe's grill, Frightened Rabbit will not be playing at Walter's tomorrow night. Here's the official statement from Super Unison.
While we were busy covering former mayor Bill White's returns party, our Istaverse friends in Austin scoped out Rick Perry's shindig.
When the Associated Press announced at 9 p.m. that Bill White had won the Democratic nomination for the Texas gubernatorial race, the Legends Ballroom in the Intercontinental Hotel in Houston erupted in hollers and whoops - a sea of miniature Texas flags waving enthusiastically across the heads of the crowd. The wine flowed freely as people danced to the Black-Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling [Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night]"; and remembered Texas Independence Day with songs like Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." The mood was one of victory and hope.
Hey, check this out - the "Montrose Land Defense Coalition" has started a petition to prevent a chain store from popping up at the corner West Alabama & Dunlavy.